Games minimize to desktop by themselves

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I'm running XP Home on an athlon 2400 with 512 RAM. For
the last few weeks, my games, (Americas Army, Rainbow 6
III, Rise of nations, Age of Mythology, etc.) have been
minimizing to my desktop at random times for no apparent
reason. I use Norton Firewall and Antivirus, and run Ad-
Aware and Spybot reagularly.
Sometimes I also get a "button" on my taskbar labeled
" - Microsoft Internet Explorer". Notice the four
blank spaces preceding the "- MS IE" as if the name of
the webpage is four blak spaces. I cannot restore
this "button" to open the window, all I can do is close
it. I don't know what it is.
I've scanned for viruses, adware, and spyware with no
luck. It started happening to all of the games at around
the same time.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks
Rod

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No I just have a jpeg as a wallpaper, but it is constant,
no screensaver.


>-----Original Message-----
> Rod, do you have a Screensaver or Wallpaper changer
working in the
>background?
>"Rod" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>news:1219401c44269$027afb70$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> I'm running XP Home on an athlon 2400 with 512 RAM.
For
>> the last few weeks, my games, (Americas Army, Rainbow 6
>> III, Rise of nations, Age of Mythology, etc.) have been
>> minimizing to my desktop at random times for no
apparent
>> reason. I use Norton Firewall and Antivirus, and run
Ad-
>> Aware and Spybot reagularly.
>> Sometimes I also get a "button" on my taskbar labeled
>> " - Microsoft Internet Explorer". Notice the four
>> blank spaces preceding the "- MS IE" as if the name of
>> the webpage is four blak spaces. I cannot restore
>> this "button" to open the window, all I can do is close
>> it. I don't know what it is.
>> I've scanned for viruses, adware, and spyware with no
>> luck. It started happening to all of the games at
around
>> the same time.
>>
>> Any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rod
>
>
>.
>

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Rod wrote:
> *I'm running XP Home on an athlon 2400 with 512 RAM. For
> the last few weeks, my games, (Americas Army, Rainbow 6
> III, Rise of nations, Age of Mythology, etc.) have been
> minimizing to my desktop at random times for no apparent
> reason. I use Norton Firewall and Antivirus, and run Ad-
> Aware and Spybot reagularly.
> Sometimes I also get a "button" on my taskbar labeled
> " - Microsoft Internet Explorer". Notice the four
> blank spaces preceding the "- MS IE" as if the name of
> the webpage is four blak spaces. I cannot restore
> this "button" to open the window, all I can do is close
> it. I don't know what it is.
> I've scanned for viruses, adware, and spyware with no
> luck. It started happening to all of the games at around
> the same time.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Rod *
Hello Rod ,
I was experiencing exactly the same problem and when I
checked what services are running on my P.C I noticed a rogue one
called wxoyssdh.exe I cannot find any information about this service
anywhere on the web but if you go into task manager and kill it the
problem goes away.
It's always worth keeping an eye on what services your P.C is running
so that if anything new and suspicous appears you can get rid of it.
Hope this helps mate.



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I have since discovered something that is probably the same thing, or
at least related. While reading in my web browser, the window will
lose focus (the title bar will become faded, and if I press the arrow
keys to move the web page up or down, nothing will happen until I
click on the web browser window again to make it active). I
double-checked the processes I have running to see if there was
something there that shouldn't be; I found nothing. So whatever's
causing my games to minimize seems to be taking focus away from active
applications also. It's like a an invisible process is taking focus
away, but I can't find what could be doing this.

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I spoke too soon. While Battlefield 1942 no longer has its focused
removed, everything else still does, including other games. And
unfortunately, it looks as though installing TweakUI deleted all of my
previous System Restore points, so I might be facing a format and
re-install of Windows XP. Or perhaps I'll try Linux.